This project encompasses sixteen program enhancements or new initiatives intended to make theological reflection on vocation a central part of the life of SPU.

The goal of SERVE is that students complete their undergraduate years at SPU with a theologically rich sense of Christian life purpose. To that end, each project element is designed both to challenge students with a vision of vocation that transcends career, status, or material aspirations and also to give them the theological tools and experiences they need to discern and develop their own calling.

It is our hope that graduates of SPU will either choose to invest their lives in church ministry and religious institutions or will enter secular vocations with an awareness of God’s call to serve in those arenas.

SERVE programs also benefit faculty plus select staff and alumni of SPU.

Outside the university, SERVE reaches into the community with programs for clergy, school teachers of grades K-12, and minority youth underrepresented on the SPU campus.